In another galaxy, on another planet, at another time to our own, bears had out-evolved the apes and had become the most intelligent species on their planet. So advanced was their ingenuity, they developed technologies far superior to those we know here on Earth, in our present epoch.
Highly sophisticated and intelligent bears had developed the capacity for both space and time travel, traversing vast distances and eons, in four dimensional spacetime. This innovatory capability allowed them to explore both, with relative ease and in comfort. Being inquisitive, they sought knowledge and culture from far across the universe, at various moments in its evolution.
At length, they came across a curious little planet in an otherwise undistinguished galaxy. In what was the 21st century, by local reckoning, Earth, a pale blue dot of a planet in the middle of nowhere at all, was filled with observably mad apes, threatening to cause their own extinction and the destruction of all vital life support systems, for the strange gratifications of greed and power. Violent aggression was their preferred method of interacting with each other.
How had these creatures descended to this low level of development? Did they not realise their obsessions were simple mind viruses, spread virulently through their primitive propaganda media? Were they unaware that they could collectively change their minds, at any moment, thereby saving themselves from certain oblivion?
Could they be saved? Would they gratuitously end their own existence in a spectacular fireball of profit taking? This planet deserved further observation by the space bears, if for no other reason than to serve as a salutary warning to other intergalactic species and also for idle amusement.
Then disaster struck. The highly advanced spacetime travel machine, which had brought the space bears to this galaxy, planet and time, malfunctioned. Parts were needed, but these were beyond the technological capabilities of the mad Earth apes to produce. The tools and technologies would not be developed for thousands of years, on this planet.
Lacking the necessary raw materials to effect repairs and out of communication with their planet of origin, the intergalactic space bears were effectively marooned; doomed to witness the destruction of the Earth by mad apes, as helpless bystanders. The bears would only be able to document the downfall and to try to guide the inhabitants in their own language, through the recognised intergalactic lingua franca, in their own spacetime: the transcendent medium of music.
Would the mad apes listen? Could they comprehend? These remained desperate open questions.
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